reading & writing

• Context


  backdrop of a text
• Context


  Social, cultural, political, historical
• hows of discovering texts content

  when?

  what issues deal with it?

  what were the circumstances?
• Linear Text


  Traditional text that needs to be read from beginning to end (e.g. novels, poems, letters, etc)
• Non-linear text


  Doesn't need to be read from beginning to end (e.g. flow charts, charts, infographics, etc)
• Hypertext


  It contains links to kther text and it is purely computer construct
• HyperText


  A series of chunks connected by links (Nelson, 1987)
• Intertext


  direct references
• Advantages


  It acts as a bridge between two basic opposite and completely allows the learner to navigate and manipulate sites
• Disadvantage


  It is easy to get lost through the ocean of information and misinformation and a problem that occurs with concentration
• 3 Types of Intertext

  Allusion, parody, pastiche
• Allusion


  An expression that calls attention to something without explicitly
• Types of allusion


  Historical, biblical, cultural, literary allusion
• Types of parody?


  Parody, spoof, satire, allegory, pastiche
• Parody


  A piece if writing that uses many of the same elements
• Spoof


  Mocks a specific genre
• Satire


  An irony humour to mock political or religious views
• Allegory


  A subtle message embedded within a storyline
• Pastiche


  It borrows or rework and element from one ir more works
• Adaptation


  recasting
• Retro


  recycling or refashioning
• Appropriation


  borrowing
• Parody


  mock
• Pastiche


  Rework / borrow
• Critical reading


  goes beyond passively and makes judgement
• Simple Reading


  It gives basic definition of a text, a central idea of the message and it absorbs and understands
• PIE


  Persuade, inform, entertain
• Elements


  Characters, settings, plot, p.o.v, theme
• Reasoning


  To explain and justify
• Inductive reasoning


  Bottom - top reasoning and specific general and it also creates a conclusion to put parts all together
• Deductive reasoning


  Top - bottom reasoning and general specific and it breaks down the parts into specific parts
• Abductive Reasoning


  You are guessing
• Antithesis


  A reaction to the proposition
• Synthesis


  Solves conflict vetween antithesis and thesis
• Steps in evaluative statements

  Read, collect and organize evidence, look between the facts and significance
• Tips to be a good critic

  Looks for strengths and weaknesses
• Steps in choosing evaluative statements


  It formulates an assertion and a meaningful content and properties in response to a claim
• Assertions


  It starts a declaration and gives a positive idea and proof to solidify assertions
• Components of proof


  Evidence and analysis
• Types of assertion


  Fact, convention, opinion, and preference